Down Under Side Of The Moon - The Pink Floyd Australian Discography

While being the third Pink Floyd album released in the UK, More was the first Pink Floyd album released in Australia. The catalyst for its release is unknown, although it's likely that being a soundtrack, EMI Australia assumed a parallel (or as near parallel as possible in Australia!) theatrical release.

For the Australian release, EMI Australia followed its usual practice at the time of importing UK metal mothers. EMI UK provided un-numbered stereo mothers with matrices YAX 3868-1G/ YAX 3869-1G. Stampers were created locally.

Sleeve art followed that of the UK release, albeit with the now customary STEREO logo applied to the front top right. The rear is reproduced from a photograph taken of the UK sleeve with localised EMI Australia text. As the album remained in print until the late 1980s, numerous slight variations to the sleeve design exist. More details and photos follow, along with examples of the myriad label variations.

The album was quite well received upon release as Ed Nimmervoll wrote in his October 1969 Go-Set review - reproduced in the image at right.

A cassette release did not eventuate until the release of the Pink Floyd PFB1 boxset in 1980.

The publisher for all tracks is listed as MCPS (Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society, UK). This is because the tracks were not sub-published here until Bryan Morrison opened an Australian branch of Lupus Music in July 1970, administered through the Norman Whiteley Group (local owner of Penjane and Abigail, amongst others). In the meantime, royalties were collected by EMI Australia and paid to MCPS UK for distribution. For some unknown reason, the publisher remained printed as MCPS until the 1980's reissue, when it was finally corrected to Lupus, having not been part of the local Pink Floyd catalogue move to Chappell in May 1980 (under the worldwide deal signed in January 1980).

Following are details and images of the known releases and variations, in order of appearance.